Stoebe rugulosa Harv.

Small erect, woody shrub with whip-like branches, up to 0.4 m tall. Branches covered with white wool when young, becoming more or less glabrous later. Leaves small, rarely more than 2 mm long, adpressed, imbricate or just touching the leaf above, linear-subulate; abaxial surface glabrous, with three clearly distinguishable parallel veins which are generally of a lighter colour than the rest of the leaf, dry leaves appearing to be pitted between the veins; the middle vein exending in a short outward projecting mucro at leaf apex. Synflorescences terminal, loose aggregations of capitula in leaf axils. Capitula homogamous, discoid, 1-flowered. Receptacle reduced to short stalks on an inflated branch tip. Involucral bracts 10; outermost short and somewhat leaf-like; inner scarious, mostly obtuse, very often with three teeth, rarely subacute, a little longer than the corolla tube, reaching the lobe sinuses, 4 mm long. Florets bisexual; pink; corolla lobes narrow, spreading, 1.3 long. Stamens 5, apical appendage lanceolate, basally tailed, often exserted from tube at maturity. Style bifid, base slightly swollen. Nectaries present. Cypselas cylindrical, surface smooth, annulus a prominent ridge. Pappus setae 15, a little shorter than the corolla, slightly fused at the base, plumose, plumes ascending.